days in the sun

leolloyd
michael gagen's loops and drones are often enough to bring me to tears. the warmth and bleakness of this album are astounding.
Favorite track: as the flames of revolution lick at the walls of our throats.

Progmetalhero
What casn I say, this is Michael Gagen. Incessant creativity and always sure to poke the right spot of my sentimentality.
Favorite track: as the flames of revolution lick at the walls of our throats.

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Cassette + Digital Album

'days in the sun' is the sixth studio record by agrammeofsoma. For the first time, my music will be available in physical form, on ultra limited edition & hand numbered full colour cassette tape. These tapes; manufactured by Cryptic Carousel in the United States are very rare, there are 50 in existence. Well, 49. I'm keeping #50 for me. Each copy comes with a high resolution digital download of the album. This is the final manufacture run, there will not be more copies made.Here's to our days in the sun, here's to dead media, here's to the Yankees, here's to Hemingway, and here's to quiet peace and pale light.
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about

'days in the sun' is the sixth studio agrammeofsoma record, low-fidelity, dark and hopeful. It was recorded to tape.

Assembled from loops, love, spare parts, and a strong distrust of silence, it's one entire live take at 3:00am to 3:55am on a cold Brisbane morning. For $10 you can have a very limited, hand numbered copy on analogue cassette tape + a high resolution digital download. The download only copy is free, as always.

Here's to our days in the sun, here's to dead media, here's to the Yankees, here's to Hemingway, and here's to quiet peace and pale light. Love to you all.
-M

Tracklisting:

01 as the flames of revolution lick at the walls of our throats

02 he dragged pencil over calm paper in the hopes a cold equation would spring to life with the warmth of some ragged piece of art

03 days in the sun

04 archipelago

05 "have faith in the Yankees my son, think of the great DiMaggio"

credits

released November 17, 2015

Written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Michael Gagen. All sounds made by one guitar, one loop pedal, one computer and one take. And a few different picks.

Sample on "...flames..." is an abridged version of Glenn Greenwald's 2013 Hong Kong interview with Edward Snowden for the Guardian.

about

there is always soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous east, three for a dark eternity on the moon.-huxley, brave new world, 1932...more